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Imes, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Peoria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66079. It stands on Ottawa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peoria quadrangle.

Imes within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

48 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Imes between 2015 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service180052
23 August 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service102
4 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service180040
16 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180146
9 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service38
9 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service21
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service180020
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service180018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Peoria0.9 miles17
Rantoul3.5 miles17
B N Junction6.0 miles19
Ottawa6.5 miles19
Ottawa Junction7.2 miles18
Le Loup8.4 miles17
Princeton8.5 miles17
Lane10.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484945. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.